General Information

The aim of portal studyin.sk is to inform you about the Slovak Republic and the opportunities it provides in the field of education (mainly higher education).It also offers informationneeded when entering the Slovak Republic: http://studyin.sk.

On the Slovak Euraxess portal you may find practical information (about accommodation, daily life, entry conditions and legal stay, administrative duties, health insurance etc.) related not only to a research stay in Slovakia: http://www.euraxess.sk/en/main/services-practical-information/.

Costs of studying

Public schools in the Slovak republic (primary, secondary and tertiary education) are still free of charge.

In public higher education are some exceptions:

- Where a student of a public or a state university studies in a study program for longer than the standard duration without serious reasonhe or she shall be obliged to pay the university a tuition for every additional year at the amount to be determined by the university.

- Public universities may charge for the issue of the documents of the study and their copies, for the issue of documents of study completion, where these are required in a foreign language, and for the issue of the copies of documents of study completion.

- There are also fees for so called external university studies or in some cases for studies in other languages than Slovak language and for foreigners.

The private university in its internal regulation shall determine the charges and tuition associated with the study at the private university.

Some universities also offer courses of Slovak language - e.g. Studia Academica Slovaca – The Centre for Slovak as a Foreign Language (SAS) based at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University (FF UK) in Bratislava. This centre also offers Summer School of Slovak language and culture since 1965: http://www.fphil.uniba.sk/sas.

Also Migration Information Centre of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) offers third-country nationals a free of charge Open Course of Slovak Language in Bratislava and Košice: http://mic.iom.sk/en/our-services.

EURES - European Employment Services is a network of cooperating entities/subjects whose aim is to facilitate the free movement of workers within the European Economic Area and Switzerland. In the EURES network are regional and national institutions involved, that are dealing with the issues of Employment, such as trade unions, employers and their organizations. The EURES advisers are consultants trained by the European Commission who offer information, counseling and mediation/brokerage services to clients throughout Europe.

The public administration in education is guaranteed by both the State administration and territorial self-governance, which is executed by municipalities and higher territorial units. The Central body of state administration in education is the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, which develops educational aims, content and methods for education. Local administration is the responsibility of municipalities, which provide most of pre-primary, primary and lower secondary education in Slovakia. Public schools provide education free of charge.